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CoCaman / Geekness:
GOOGLE TESTING GDRIVE (CODENAME PLATYPUS) — Okay, Writely accepts new users, no big deal here. And because I am a very interested person, I wanted to know on which system (programming language) it now runs. So I started to append index.jsp, index.py and so on at the URL.
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Google Blogoscoped:
Google Gdrive Surfaces — Corsin Camichel discovered first traces of Gdrive, Google's rumored online storage solution. Corsin was snooping around Google's writely.com, trying out the page name "index.html", when he hit on what looks like a Gdrive download page.
Jim Rapoza / eWEEK.com:
eWEEK Labs Bakeoff: Open Source Versus .Net Stacks — Review: Open-source and .Net zealots can both take away positives from eWEEK Labs testing of various application stacks, but a mix-and-match approach wins the day. Bottom line: Open source and .Net better learn to play nice.
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Tim / O'Reilly Radar:
Operations: The New Secret Sauce — I spoke last week with Debra Chrapaty, the VP of Operations for Windows Live, to explore one of the big ideas I have about Web 2.0, namely that once we move to software as a service, everything we thought we knew about competitive advantage has to be rethought.
Brier Dudley / Seattle Times:
Argo aims guns at more than iPod — Microsoft is indeed developing a digital-media player to compete with Apple's iPod, and there's much more to the story. — A few details trickled out last week from music companies that Microsoft is lining up to support the device.
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Engadget, Gizmodo, PVR Wire, AAPL - Blogging Stocks, Kotaku, Gearlog, Alice Hill's Real Tech News and Microsoft News Tracker
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Microsoft's "Argo" / Xbox wireless portable media player — We've had to sit on this one for a while, but it's about time we showed you guys at least one possible form Microsoft's Argo / Xbox-branded wireless portable media player could take. Sent to us from an insider working on the project …
Matt / Photo Matt:
WordCamp - WordPress Conference — The idea for an event for WordPress users has been bouncing around in my head for a long time, as there is a really interesting group of people around WP but we don't do nearly as many face-to-face interactions as some similar projects.
Eric Pfanner / New York Times:
Old Media, Not New, Is World Cup Winner — On the playing field, the World Cup soccer tournament produced only one winner. In the marketing arena, however, it created many opportunities for glory — as well as a few disappointments. — France's surprising run showed that "old" …
Los Angeles Times:
We aren't all pirates — Anti-piracy proposals before Congress could limit innovation and legal uses of technology. — THE INTERNET AND DIGITAL technology have been both a blessing and a curse for the entertainment industry, opening new opportunities for selling music and video but also fueling rampant global piracy.
Om Malik / gigaom.com:
SightSpeed Shifting Places — In VoIP + Connected Home + Start-Ups + Place Shifting — A few days ago I read something about ABC trying to out-hustle the DVR technology. I found it amusing because these studio guys are sooooo late to the game always. DVR as a technology is at a point …
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Aswath Weblog, VoIP Watch, Alec Saunders .LOG, O'Reilly Emerging Telephony and Realtime-VoIP
Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
Shopping by Phone, on the Move — SOMETIMES it seems hard to figure out whether younger consumers enjoy shopping more than using their cellphones, or vice versa. Soon, readers of a Condé Nast magazine will be invited to do both at once. — The magazine, Lucky …
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GigaOM, paidContent.org, MocoNews.net, dailywireless.org, Rex Hammock's Weblog and The Pondering Primate
Eliot Van Buskirk / Wired News:
Hilary Rosen: Singing a New Song? — For many, the name Hilary Rosen recalls a Recording Industry Association of America bogeywoman who brought the law down on Napster, the Diamond Rio, small-time internet radio and other fan favorites. Music and tech enthusiasts seemed to hold …
Associated Press:
Student, Phone Home — CINCINNATI — For Ron Chicken and other freshmen at Montclair State University, the new freedoms that presumably came with college age included a mandatory cell phone with which the school could pinpoint their whereabouts on or off campus.
BBC:
'Magnetic memory' chip unveiled — A microchip which can store information like a hard drive has been unveiled by US company Freescale. — The chip, called magnetoresistive random-access memory (Mram), maintains data by relying on magnetic properties rather than an electrical charge.
